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Choosing International Professional Advisers

A due-diligence guide to preparing for conversations with lawyers, tax advisers, trustees and corporate-service providers.

What this guide is designed to help you do

  • Know what credentials and engagement terms to check.
  • Compare quotations, conflicts and professional protections.
  • Spot warning signs associated with aggressive promoters.

Educational outline

  1. 01Verifying licences and credentials
  2. 02Engagement scope and conflicts
  3. 03Insurance and document custody
  4. 04Exit and migration provisions
  5. 05Complaints procedures
  6. 06Questions to ask before appointing an adviser

Important boundaries

The materials will not provide a personal structure recommendation, calculate a tax outcome, facilitate concealment, avoid reporting obligations or assist with frustrating lawful creditor claims.